Books Quote by Manning Marable

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

— Manning Marable

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

— Junot Diaz

I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.

— Tobias Harris

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

— Manning Marable

What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being…

— Manning Marable

The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963.…

— Manning Marable

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

— Nat Hentoff

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human…

— Jim Brown

It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The…

— Chadwick Boseman

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't…

— Sherman Alexie

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

— Christopher McQuarrie